Gatehouse's Doreen Storey takes a trip down memory lane in Galloway People Her story takes her from the home of culture to the trial of her life Daily Record · Nov 25, 2022
We’ve never needed working-class stories like Shuggie Bain more Douglas Stuart is adapting his Booker Prize-winning novel, set in a Glasgow scarred by Thatcherism, for the BBC. Thank heavens for that – the diet of wealth-obssessed TV like ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘The Crown’ is out of step with life in our cash-squeezed age, writes Jessie Thompson The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022
BBC announces Shuggie Bain series as Glasgow best selling book to hit TV screens The Douglas Stuart novel tells the heartbreaking tale of a mother-son relationship in working-class Glasgow back in the 1980s, the the youngster struggling to make it in a tough world. Glasgow Live · Nov 14, 2022
BBC announces Shuggie Bain TV series with screenplay by Douglas Stuart Douglas Stuart, author of the 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel, is adapting his smash-hit novel set in Glasgow for BBC One and iPlayer. Daily Record · Nov 14, 2022
'When I feel lost I come back home': Douglas Stuart on Scots, class and Shuggie Bain "ONE of the things I was pretty adamant about is not lessening the Scots or the Glaswegian dialect in the literature,” bestselling Scottish… The National (Scotland) · Nov 13, 2022
Mary at Hampstead Theatre review: Rona Munro’s queen’s tale utterly fails to spark This play about Mary Stuart draws juicy contemporary parallels but this talky and monotonous production is less than the sum of its parts Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2022
Jennifer Lawrence’s best performances – ranked! As talk of another Oscar grows for her performance in this year’s Causeway, we rate the versatile actor’s finest work The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2022
Tam Cowan: Bond baddie will be BBC boss who threatens series of Mrs Brown's Boys "I was cheering all the way for my Radio Scotland colleague Kaye Adams on Strictly and was totally gutted when she was the first person voted off. " Daily Record · Oct 6, 2022
Mum-of-12 fears she'll never be able to afford to take kids on holiday abroad Zoe Sullivan and her family need to move to a five-bedroom home but can't save any money to do so Liverpool Echo · Aug 26, 2022
No Break For Mom Of 12 Because Of Increasing Costs And Higher Bills The family had hoped to be able to take the kids on vacation, but savings are now being spent on groceries and bills. Zenger · Aug 26, 2022
Mum-of-12 worries family will never be able to go on holiday again due to cost of living crisis Zoe Sullivan says her bills have doubled to £400 per month Wales Online · Aug 25, 2022
Hollywood star George Clooney to visit Ireland again 'before the year is out' He had planned to visit with his children in 2020 before Covid-19 disrupted travel Irish Mirror · Jul 28, 2022
Drunk bully slapped and spat on OAP, 88, before attacking his partner Andrew Craig targeted both his partner and her elderly mother during disgusting assault Daily Record · Jul 24, 2022
'Xenoblade Chronicles 3' teases a mind-blowing mashup of familiar worlds The world of 'Xenoblade Chronicles 3' is a fascinating combination of what's come before, hinting at a potentially massive reveal ahead. Inverse · Jul 7, 2022
Wales Online · Jun 1, 2022 'There’s no space here' Mum offered housing in Manchester due to living conditions in London accommodation Naima Bazizi pays £800 per month to live in temporary accommodation in London
Daily Mirror · Jun 1, 2022 Council offers mum new home 200 miles away after she complains about 'tiny' flat Hundreds of families in the building are forced to share just eight washing machines in the tower block - which is used as temporary housing by Newham Council
Manchester Evening News · Jun 1, 2022 Mum complains to council about size of her tiny London flat - so is offered home 200 miles away in Manchester Naima Bazizi pays £800 a month for her compact two-room flat
The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022 In capturing the changing face of Britain, playwrights can explain us to ourselves Beth Steel’s The House of Shades unites national politics and private lives through the fortunes of a working-class family from 1965 to 2019
Evening Standard · May 18, 2022 House of Shades at the Almeida review: A confused mix of family drama and political screed A layered, expressive lead performance from Anne-Marie Duff can’t save this baggy production
The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2022 Top 10 novels about neighbours From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction
Salon · May 1, 2022 "Grace & Frankie" reunites "9 to 5" cast Grace and Frankie are reminded by an old friend that "the tide's gonna turn, and it's all gonna roll your way"
Radio France Internationale · Apr 17, 2022 'Macron forced me to become more political': a tale of two Yellow Vests Nathalie and Agnès joined France's anti-government Yellow Vest protests from the outset in November 2018. Sixty weeks of sometimes violent demonstrations failed to topple the President, but Emmanuel Macron inadvertently made them more politically aware, and they're now using that to vote him out of office.
Bangkok Post · Apr 10, 2022 The crisis of unintended pregnancy Mother and daughter, Liza and Agnes, living in a small seaside community of St Bernard in the Philippines, recalled the day Super Typhoon Rai made landfall. When I visited them, they told me that when the typhoon hit, the wind sounded like a thousand horses thundering through the community and…
The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2022 Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review – another weepy from a writer on a roll The Booker winner’s follow-up to Shuggie Bain – a similarly stirring tale of precarious lives on a Glasgow council estate – proves his debut was no fluke
Daily Record · Mar 22, 2022 Lanarkshire care home's trishaw project is officially launched as locals go for a spin They want to create an intergenerational community scheme